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I think everything about being preggers is scary when you know what we know! Good luck this time around!!! My last pregnancy I gained no weight until I started swelling, doc said it was okay as long as I was eating a healthy diet and not losing weight. I kinda sorta in my heart feel like my weight had nothing to do with it because my blood pressure went right back down after and has remained stable since. But I will do whatever I can to lower the chances, and just to give myself so piece of mind that it wasn't my weight.

This whole thing makes it kind of scary when you ARE pg again. B/c you want to gain weight (sure, not excessively, but some) while pg..yet you don't want to gain too much to raise your risks of pe-hellp. *sigh* I've gained some more than I'd like thus far this pg. (but no more than the doctor has recommended or anything)

Our first son was born and passed in Feb of 2010. Born at 29 weeks due to HELLP and passed due to NEC. We miss him every day. :~(

Our second son was born at 39 weeks gestation in Nov of 2011. No HELLP or pre-e! Took LDA starting at week 12 and went off of it at week 38!

Thanks for the links to the posts!! The jokers in the deck of cards makes the odds a lot easier to understand... of course it also makes me think that my deck is either almost totally jokers OR very few depending on how someone wants to view the over 7 years, new partner, no underlying problems/normal blood pressure history. I explained it to the hubby and he understands better now the risks I am talking about. So, I guess to be on the safer side, and it is healthier anyway.. I will keep trying to drop a few pounds and hopefully that will take a couple jokers out.

My instinct is to say that for some people it might be relevant, but those people are likely mild, late-onset, and obese BMI. (Totally a guess on my part.) We've any number of posters who are marathon runners/ in the military/ lost weight and got it *worse* the next time. That said, losing weight is one of the handful of things anyone has any control over at all, there are preliminary studies that have found a dose-response relationship between weight and PE - the more you weigh, the higher your risk - and there are some bigger studies showing a slight effect of weight loss between pregnancies.

Caryn, @carynjrogers, who is not a doctor and who talks about science stuff *way* too much DS Oscar born by emergent C-section at 34 weeks for fetal indicators, due to severe PEDD Bridget born by C-section after water broke at 39 weeks after a healthy pregnancy

I used to do/like weight watchers, but the new plan was hard for me to follow. I felt like I was spending forever trying to figure out how many points things were. I have an app I downloaded on my phone that I just just scan the bar code on packages or look up stuff and it logs calories, fat etc. I was doing good on that and then this last week I'm not sure what happened.I guess maybe when we get closer to trying I will start doing baby asprin and then when it is confirmed see what the docs want me to do.

I think it's also worth remembering that overweight/obese women are more likely to have chronic hypertension and Type 2 diabetes, which both increase the risk of PE. I think the relationship between PE and weight, such as it is, is complicated and may not be related to weight itself but the complications of obesity.

I was about 25 lbs heavier when I got pregnant with #1 than #2 (obese by BMI both times). But, my underlying HTN was worse with #2, and that worries me more than the difference in weight.

I'm 5'4 to! When did you start the LDA and lovenox? I'm a little unhappy that my OBGYN doesn't feel I need to consult with an MFM until I get a +, but I guess it kind of makes sense because i consulting him with him years ago and he said he wouldn't need to see me again until I got pregnant... but still I wonder if there is something I should be taking other then prenatals... I'm think about maybe trying baby asprin, I just don't want to take anything that will do more harm them good!

I'm about 5'4 and went into my first pregnancy about 170 lbs, resulted in HELLP at 23 wks. My 2nd pregnancy I was about 195, 11 months after my first pregnancy ended, no pre-e, no hellp, no blood pressure issues, and my diet was about the same both pregnancies. (I was on lovenox and LDA though, the 2nd time around, and I did end up with mild gestational diabetes (sorta)). I had a pre-conception appointment with my mfm weighing about 195 and asked her how much weight she wanted me to lose before I got pregnant again, she told me it was ok if my weight stayed the same,as she didn't think it would make a difference.(That really didn't help me lose weight in the year we spent trying!) Anyway, I would work on it but not stress yourself out over it! Good luck!

I forgot the other part LOL I haven't seen an MFM... I say one after I delivered 7 years ago, and then said once I got pregnant they would start seeing me. When I went to my normal OBGYN last week, he said that once I got pregnant I would see an MFM and they gave me a ton of prenatal vitamins. The OBGYN made it sound like he didn't believe in extra vitamins or fish oil or anything... but I kow the MFM said that he would have me on baby asprin, extra vitamins ect. So I'm going to take the prenatals I guess, and then after I get pregnant see what the MFM says